What baffles me about Trump supporters is that they were all told that tariffs mean we get paid more by other countries. They believed it. They didn’t believe it would cause a trade war or increased prices. Then they are told, yeah, we lied, tariffs will increase prices and will cause a trade war. And they’re like: fuck yeah! We’ll win this trade war!
They will believe anything, even after being lied to, and will change their political stance based on whatever he is currently saying. How anyone lives so mindlessly is beyond me.
There’s always a reason for it though. The right always spins it in a way that of you don’t have the facts, or even just a few of the facts, you believe what they say. And if you have the facts ready and can logically prove them wrong based on their partial facts, they will shift to saying that my source of the facts is wrong or unreliable. If you manage to find them sources from something they deem reliable, they just say they will research it later when they get a chance but never actually research it. There’s always a way for them to dance around reality because reality is an ever shifting thing for them. There’s always a lie or conspiracy afoot for them to deny basic reality as it’s presented to them. I work with these people and live in a conservative area. There is no getting through to them and if you manage, they come back a few days later slowly going back to their old way of thinking. In the end, it’s not about justice, reality, logic, or fact. It’s about fear, anger, and hatred. That’s what drives them. No reasoning with someone like that.
What baffles me about Trump supporters is that they were all told that tariffs mean we get paid more by other countries. They believed it. They didn’t believe it would cause a trade war or increased prices. Then they are told, yeah, we lied, tariffs will increase prices and will cause a trade war. And they’re like: fuck yeah! We’ll win this trade war!
They will believe anything, even after being lied to, and will change their political stance based on whatever he is currently saying. How anyone lives so mindlessly is beyond me.
There’s always a reason for it though. The right always spins it in a way that of you don’t have the facts, or even just a few of the facts, you believe what they say. And if you have the facts ready and can logically prove them wrong based on their partial facts, they will shift to saying that my source of the facts is wrong or unreliable. If you manage to find them sources from something they deem reliable, they just say they will research it later when they get a chance but never actually research it. There’s always a way for them to dance around reality because reality is an ever shifting thing for them. There’s always a lie or conspiracy afoot for them to deny basic reality as it’s presented to them. I work with these people and live in a conservative area. There is no getting through to them and if you manage, they come back a few days later slowly going back to their old way of thinking. In the end, it’s not about justice, reality, logic, or fact. It’s about fear, anger, and hatred. That’s what drives them. No reasoning with someone like that.
this is why republicans have been systematically destroying public education.